iraq

Iraq is a Middle East country bordered by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria that was the home of many ancient civilisations including the Sumerians, who invented writing. It achieved its modern  independence in 1930, having been a British colony since 1920, before which it was ruled by the Ottoman Turks.

Bloggers may well be using the tag to refer to the Iraq war, which started in 2003 when America and its allies invaded the country to otherthrow the dictator Saddam Hussein.

The war and its aftemath has proved highly controversial and has inspired playwrights, novelists, and many bloggers within the theater of war, both soldiers and civilians.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “iraq”

• New Iraq fact reported

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 595
  That Peter Goldsmith, the Attorney General (right, before, and far right, after being monstered by the Mail on Sunday ), wrote a note to Tony Blair on 29 July 2002 about the legality of possible military action in Iraq, as reported by the Mail on Sunday today, is new. Everything else about the report is known but ...
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• Triumph of the Turks

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Triumph of the Turks Turkey is the surprising beneficiary of U.S. misadventures in the Middle East. By Owen Matthews and Christopher Dickey | NEWSWEEK  Published Nov 28, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Dec 7, 2009 Archibald Wavell himself could scarcely have imagined how horribly accurate ...
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• Dick Cheney for President in 2012?

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 551
  Never mind Sarah Palin and Lou Dobbs.  Would you believe that some folks in the GOP are actually talking about running Dick Cheney for President in 2012?“Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction, has a record on which he can be judged, and whatever the result, there could be no ambiguity about the will [...]
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• Evangelical Icon Fading

  
  In Iraq Now (at 56) — Authority: 129
  At Chapel today the Chaplain asked the audience "how many people know the name Joni Eareckson?" Three of us raised our hands. I suppose there were 80 or 90 soldiers and only three raised their hands. If you dont know the name here are the first two lines of her Wikipedia entry: A diving accident in 1967 left ...
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• Watch TV Alsam Online Live Internet TV Stream News Channel from Iraq free

  
  Watch-Free.TV :: Stream Movies and TV for Free! — Authority: 505
  Watch TV Alsam Online Live TV Stream News Channel from Iraq free.
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• Ex-British diplomat: Iraq invasion was of ‘questionable legitimacy

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 962
  The March 2003 military invasion of Iraq was "legal but of questionable legitimacy" because the U.N. Security Council had not voted to support it, a former top British diplomat said last week at a parliamentary inquiry examining Britains role in the war.
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• Cal Thomas: Media Eager to Criticize Bush for Abu Gharib Now Reluctant to Criticize Obama for Navy SEAL Court Martial

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 837
  Its a night and day difference between the medias scrutiny of former President George W. Bush and the current command-in-chief, President Barack Obama. And the coverage of three Navy SEALs now facing a court martial that captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq , who allegedly was the mastermind of the ...
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• Truth, If Not Justice: Britains Iraq Inquiry

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  The trial of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the gang that got us into the Iraq War has now begun, after a fashion. Its not taking place in the United States. And it doesnt call itself a trial at all. There wont be any convictions, nor even any conclusions likely until 2011. We wont see ex-president Bush, or Dick ...
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• Military deaths

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 829
  The latest U.S. Defense Department identification of casualties: • Army Spc. Jason A. McLeod , 22, of Crystal Lake, Ill., was killed Nov. 23 by enemy mortar fire west of Pashmul, Afghanistan.
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• Suspicions of Iraqi lying helped make finding pilots remains an 18-year ordeal

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 829
  WASHINGTON | Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn’t believe him. So it took the most powerful military in the world 18 years to find the remains of the only Navy pilot shot down in an aerial battle in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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• Lies my bf told me: “My Twin Brother”

  
  Tough Girl 101 — Authority: 119
  Disclaimer: I can’t remember what possessed me to date him and I can’t even justify whatever it was that made me stay for so long, but the tall tales and the lies that he told because they were so over-the-top that they warrant immortalizing on cyberspace. See the previous installment: “Do you like me?” ...
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• Afghanistan, Iraq: Two Very Different Wars

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  U.S. Marines conduct a vehicle sweep to ensure there are no hidden improvised explosive devices during a security patrol through the Nawa district in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 28, 2009. U.S Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg From AP: FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan — Veterans ...
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• U.K. Inquiry on Iraq

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  An inquiry has been launched in the United Kingdom to determine whether the British government lied to the public about the invasion of Iraq in 2003. CBS News Elizabeth Palmer reports from London.
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• Holiday Cards – for Deployed Eph !

  
  EphBlog — Authority: 147
  If you have an extra holiday card, please consider sending it to our only deployed Eph, Bill Couch ‘79, who is serving in Iraq. It only takes a regular 44 cent stamp! Just put the undecipherable military address on the envelope and drop it in any mailbox. Capt. W. S. Couch MNSTC-1 / JHAATT APO AE 09348 Thank ...
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• Tony, if you’re a ‘dead man’, challenge the treacherous bastards to CHARGE you

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 434
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Comment at end 29th November, 2009 The Independent: “The former prime minister has been appalled by high-profile evidence given by the mandarins who have appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry since the ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid — Authority: 488
  Here’s an interesting article from yahoo/AP:Col. David B. Haight, commander of U.S. forces in Logar and neighboring Wardak province, half jokes that some frustrated Afghans come to him and say: “‘You can put a man on the moon so can’t we get a road here?’ and I have to tell them, `You know, it’s a [...]
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• thirty movies hath november - Three Kings (1999)

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 135
  Three Kings takes place in a far away place a long time ago: Iraq and 1991. the (first) Gulf war has just ended officially but there is still much chaos on the ground. as American soldiers disarm some surrendering Iraqi soldiers, the American s... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Blair’s fury: Are mandarins seeking revenge?

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 143
  The former PM has confessed to worries that his reputation will be shredded as evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry begins to mount By Brian Brady, Sunday, 29 November 2009 Article Bloomberg Mr Blair assured MPs in the run-up to the invasion that, ‘extensive, detailed and authoritative’ ...
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• Peak oil: the summit that dominates the horizon

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 147
  The big international companies such as BP and ExxonMobil are struggling to find enough new oil to replace their exploited reserves year-on-year and Shell found itself on the end of a major fine for exaggerating its reserves report to the Securities & Exchange Commission in the US.
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